Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-20
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The Remit Santley troupe is in rhila-
dclphia.
I'VE, Us K Co." is drawing big business
at every stand.
Eddie Sands, the minstrel, died last Sat
urday in Boston.
Hal LOuther, who was in America with
Irving, is dead.
Jack Hayerly is heart and soul in the
minstrel business again.
Henry f. Dixcy has a knack ~ 4 earl
caturist with u pencil.
Agnes Robertson Boucicault will shortly
return to England.
Maggie Mitchell takes pride in being
able To do her own cooking.
Mary Anderson begins 4 provincial tomr
at Birmingham Easter Monday.
Harry Miners managerial successes are
said to have Melted him u cool million.
Edwin Booth is 4 victim OF the banana
habit. He eats twenty or thirty a day.
The III. W. Williams and Kernel Com
pluy is playing to good business in Boston.
4 revival of the Lights - London" is
in progress at the Grand Opera House, New
York.
Laura Burt, popularity known as The
Queen of the Dudes" is now with The
Tin Soldier"
The National Opera Company took away
S:D, OOO for one weeks performances in
Washington.
4. L.. Cazaurap has made a dramatlaI-
ton of Obnet'S "COmteS4e Sarah for
Fanny Davenport.
James Z. Murdoch quietly celebrated
his 10th birthday, January -, at his
home. Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.
Margaret Mather Is reaping a rich lmr-
vest with her new play alexandra in
the New England States.
Mr.. Abbey denies that the bomb thrown
in the Opera House at san Francisco WAS
intended for Patti.
Sarah Bernharlt's performance of
''Adrienne LecOuvreur" caused the wild
est enthusiasm in Havana.
"Mynheer Jan" is the title Of a new
opera by PaultOn and J~akObowski, pro-
duced i'll London last Monday.
Lawrence Barrett's production Of Ri
emf in Washington drew an average OF
81, 600 st every performance.
Gus Williams has bought the three-act
farce, An Only Daughter" from its
authors, j. l.. Millikin and II. Tyrrell.
Henry Abbey has purchased the Amer
can rights in Sydney Grundy's comedy,
Silver Shield, - and Mrs. Abbey will st; 1
in it.
Lawrence Barrett is fond of deviled crabs
and rrab-salad. Baltimore Is his f~av0rite
city, on account of the way they get mp
those dishes.
Sarah Rernhardt's advance agent says
that she made $3.50, 0O0 in South America,
but the figures are said TO be terribly eX-
aggerated.
Mile. Mars, the famous French TRACE.
dienne, was between forty and fifty when
Spe reached the zenith of her beauty and
popularity.
Denman Thompson has settled down in
New York for the winter. Tie is coming
money with The Old Homestead a Sc
puel % Joshua Whitcomh."
Tue OIlCdNO iftbuHt SdNS llNt IlIHllSl
is too great for the stage And this, too.
for acity that is going to have a 3, 0O0, 900
Opera House.
The Little Tycoon" is running with
unceasinx popularity in Philadelphia.
Willard Spencer wrote it, and somebody
else is making a fortune out OF it.
Charlotte Russo, - the new comedy in
which Miss Augusta Van Doren is going
70 star, was written for her by Robert q.
Morris, a New York journalist.
The hundredth night of Jim, the Pen.
man." WAS celebrated at the Madison
Square Theater last week, and the theater
gaily dressed for the occasion.
Flowers aud graceful foliage plants lined
the veStibule aud Hobbies, and artistically
engraved programmes, printed On satin,
were distributed to the audience. They
contained a photOgrayure OF the scene in
the first act, when the mOmentOus ques-
ton, who is Jim, the Penman," is
asked. The house, despite the iOrbiddiDg
weather, wa crowded in every nook and
corner.